Private Military Companies (PMCs) and defense and security contractors : exploring unfolding trends and sketching the alternative futures of the private military and security industries. We are also starting to examine the emerging conflict between PMCs/PSCs in "security partnership" with authorities and multilateral organizations and Adverse Private Forces (APFs: terrorist organizations, rebels and insurgents, mafias and organized crime, drug trafficking organizations, and maritime pirates).

Friday, 21 September 2007

UK Army chief wants respect for troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan

General Richard Dannatt said on Friday the conflicts Iraq and Afghanistan were winnable and the troops fighting there deserved more respect. Describing the war in Iraq as "clearly unpopular" at home, and the conflict in Afghanistan as misunderstood, he lamented the fact the British public showed far less for their armed forces than Americans do.